Disclaimer: I do not own the Power Rangers or anything related to the series.

Setting: Kim and Tommy have broken up and they are both trying to heal without each other, although it does not work very well for them.

Tommy's POV

This has officially been the worst week of my life. I thought it was bad when Kim left to go to Florida. No let me rephrase that when we forced her to go to Florida, I told her to follow her dreams. What a stupid thing for me to do. I didn't want her to leave, no one here really wanted that to happen, our whole team was torn apart but it was her dream to go and try to do this, try to get on an international gymnastics team and compete. I never thought that her dream would not include me in it, but that seems to be what she wants. She's found someone else.

What's his name? I don't know and I really don't care who he is. Well, actually the last part is a lie, but I'm trying to convince myself that this really is for the best. Otherwise, I might be tempted to go down there and whoop his ass. I, however, cannot do that because there are so many rangers that are depending on me to be the calm rational one. Damn this communicator, it's never quiet anymore and now I have to go face the rangers who feel sorry for me.

"Yes, Zordon," Tommy said, disheartened to have to answer this when he didn't even want to be a ranger anymore. He would give up everything he had gained by being a ranger if he could only get her back at his side. He didn't care how much that would mean giving up, it hurt him too much to think of a life without her. He had never thought that he would fall this hard for someone while he was in high school, but he had and he didn't know how to live without her anymore.

"Tommy, please teleport to the Command Center," Zordon said, as Tommy looked down at his communicator wondering what in the world was going on now, before he teleported to the Command Center. He could only imagne the worst and he really did not want to have to fight tonight. He wanted to be allowed to mope around.

"Tommy, there is someone here you need to see," Zordon said, as the red Power Ranger landed in front of him wearing only his boxers and looked to have been laying down on his bed before Zordon had interrupted him from his revelry.

Maybe seeing Jason would do something to make him feel better or at least bring him back to reality in some way. He had been walking around as a zombie would and they all knew that he would have to be snapped out of it, sometime soon. They couldn't risk him being like this much longer or he would get seriously injured out there.

"If their name is not Kimberly Hart, I'm not interested in seeing them," Tommy said as Jason walked up behind him and took a few deep breaths.

This was not the Tommy that he had left when he went to the Peace Conference. Tommy had been confident and loving, now he seemed to loathe anything that was around him that could possibly remind him of the person that hurt him. He had expected some thing like this from Tommy, but he had not expected it to be so harsh and abrupt. It was as if he no longer cared who he hurt and what it might do to them.

Jason had talked to Kim before he came out here and he had to admit that she was happy, but he didn't know if it would last with the guy. He had a bad feeling about the guy that she had dumped Tommy for, but he knew Tommy wouldn't want to hear about it. And he had already received an earful from Kim when he shared his opinion of her new boyfriend with her and he did not want Tommy to get his hopes up, because by the time Kim realized how much she messed up. He might have moved on, to who, he was not sure, but Tommy might find the strength to do so.

"Sorry about that, I just heard from Zordon," Jason said as Tommy turned around and tried to not smack him because he was smiling. Jason soon got the idea that he might want to wipe the smile off his face and quickly did so and tried to show some sort of sympathy in his expression. He could not help but be happy to be back and he didn't want Tommy to feel so bad. None of them had seen it coming and none of them wanted to admit that their lives had been changed forever when the damn letter arrived.

"Sure," Tommy muttered, as he doubted Kim had not called Trini to talk about all of this mess.

He was sure that Jason had heard about it, but he could only pray that he had not been in contact with Kim. Tommy could not stand to think about that possibility and he hoped Jason wouldn't tell him, even if he had talked to her. It would just be cruel to put him through the torture of hearing news about her life.

"Tommy, I'm not going to say this many times, but you have to trust me that things will be fine. It's going to take some time, but it will all work out. Now, why don't you come with me to meet with the rest of the rangers?" Jason asked, as they were sitting in the break room hoping Jason would be able to convince Tommy to come talk to them. He hadn't talked to them since he had gotten the letter and they were all beginning to worry about him. None of them had thought that it would take him this long to get over the relationship. They, however, didn't know how much he really loved Kimberly. He couldn't just get over that in a couple of days.

"I want to go back home, Jason. I need to think some more," Tommy said as he reached for his communicator and left without another word. When he landed in his room, he walked back over to his bed and lay down, to continue to drown in sadness. He no longer felt alive. His soul had left him when he read the letter destined for him and he didn't know if he would ever get it back.

Command Center

"Is he coming?" Katherine asked as Jason shook his head no and they all exchanged a look. Tommy was their leader and he didn't want anything to do with them anymore. He didn't want to fight, he didn't want to be there and it was hurting all of them. He only wanted to be able to have Kim, but he was never going to go after her because of the duty that hung over his head. Jason wished he could tell him to go down there and tear the boy to pieces, but it seemed that Kim did like him, even if it was not the same as Tommy. He had the feeling that something was going to change and cause Kim to come back, but why give Tommy false hope? "Damn it, he has to move on sometime. We have to figure out a way to help him."

"Kat, she just broke up with him. We have to give him some time and we may have to use some sort of force if it goes on too long. But lets give him a little bit more time to see if he can get together on his own," Jason said soothingly, as he knew from Trini that it wasn't all happiness in Florida either, but that didn't matter. Tommy would only think there was hope there, but Jason didn't know how much hope was really left.

"Jason, it's been a week. He's got to break out of it sometime. We need him to have a brain out there, he's almost gotten himself taken out over the last few days. I don't know if we can take that sort of trauma to the team," Rocky said as Jason nodded his head and then looked across the room at the rangers. Some of them had been friends with both of them and now they felt as if they had to choose between them.

"I know that, but guys, we can't be forced to choose between them. What they don't know, won't hurt them," Jason said as Billy, Rocky, and Adam all looked at him with some confusion before they understood the point he was trying to make. They had to still be friends and they had to make sure Tommy would get over all of this, in order for them to go back to normal.

AN: I know that this is a fairly short chapter, but I hope you enjoy the beginning.